Gemma Chan is an English actress and model. She has played minor roles in many big-budget films such as Doctor Who, Captain Marvel and Transformers 5: The Last Knight, and she has also been featured in many independent films. In 2018, Gemma Chen won many honors and expanded her reputation with "Crazy Rich Asians".
This year alone, Gemma Chan starred in one of the most anticipated films of 2022, Dear Don't Worry, and the all-star climate change series Expolations. In the past two years, she has become very popular in Hollywood, and was also handpicked by Kevin Feige to star in the Marvel movie "Eternals" and as the voice of Namaly in Disney's "Dragon Hunt", which also brought her closer and closer to superhero movies.
Gemma Chen's dream is entirely on her own
Gemma Chan was born into a middle-class family in London, England. Her father grew up in Hong Kong as an engineer and her mother was a pharmacist at a hospital. She spent her childhood in Severn Oaks, Kent, England, where she excelled in academic and extracurricular activities, as well as participating in many national swimming competitions. Although her father wanted her to study law, she wanted to be an actress.
After graduating from high school, she attended Worcester College, Oxford, where she obtained a law degree and an offer of offer at a London law firm. But she did not accept the job offer and still wanted to pursue an acting career, starting acting classes at the London Drama Centre. With no initial support from her family for her acting classes, she started modeling to earn money.
There, Gemma Chan was discovered by BAFTA producer Damian Jones, who helped her through the hardest days of her career, and then Gemma Chan signed with the well-known agency Nicki van Gelder. In 2006, she found an agent for herself, participated in the British version of the reality show "Flyover Proud Son", and successfully became one of the models, and all the income she earned was used to cover the cost of her drama studies.
Gemma Chen is a representative of late bloomers
Gemma Chan only began her acting career in 2006, making her debut in the Horror Channel miniseries "Strange Call". In 2009, she appeared as geologist Mia Bennett in the BBC TV series Doctor Who's special "Water of Mars", which later won the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Drama Performance. The following year, he starred in the British comedy "The New Six Residents" and the BBC's "Sherlock Season 1".
Then Gemma Chen set her sights on the film and filmed "Spy Sea", but it was attacked by critics, and "Submarine" in the same year premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival, it was a huge success and her performance also received a lot of recognition. From 2011 to 2013, she played important roles in the final season of the TV series "The Internet Diary of a Daylike Beauty" and the supernatural drama "Madhouse".
Gemma Chan established herself with "Real Humans"
Gemma Chan after filming "On the Touch" with Kevin Costner and Keira Knightley in 2014. He was noticed by the producers of the "Real Human" series and invited to play the robot Anita. In a related interview, Gemma Chen said: "I have to do a lot of work on facial expressions and gestures to be more appropriate to be the bearer of the human mind. After the first season aired, the show attracted millions of viewers on the network, and then renewed for a third season.
In addition to receiving critical and commercial acclaim for the series, she was also praised for her performance in the play, being nominated for a Broadcast Press Association Award. Around the same time, she starred in her first blockbusters, Transformers 5: The Last Knight, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. From that moment on, Gemma Chen finally didn't have to cater to any work, and she could finally become a little picky about the script handed to her.
Gemma Chan's Hollywood position is very solid
2018 is the most breakthrough year of Gemma Chen's career, she starred in the romantic comedy film "Crazy Rich Asians". Director Zhu Haowei once asked her to play the heroine, but was rejected by Gemma Chen and chose to play the more interesting Liang Asi, the film received overwhelming praise after its release, and became the highest-grossing romantic comedy in the past decade, and Gemma Chen also became the most watched female star that year. In the same year, she starred in high-scoring films such as the villain Minerva in "Captain Marvel" and "Let Them Talk".
The real life of Gemma Chen
In early 2010, Gemma Chan had been dating comedian Jack Whitehall, they met during the filming of the TV series "New Six Residents", and after seven years together, the two broke up peacefully in September 2017, and Gemma Chen returned to her apartment in London. In 2018, Gemma Chen began dating actor Dominic Cooper.
While maintaining stability in her work and personal life, she is also actively involved in philanthropy and traveled to Lebanon and other places to help children in need from 2019 to 2020.